To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

Like many of us, [Tim]’s seen online videos of circuit sculptures containing illuminated LED filaments. Unlike most of us, however, he went a step further by using graph theory to design glowing ...

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Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous ...

The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” — Michael Batty, Inventing Future Cities Everywhere you ...

By Senyo K. HosiOne of the memories of Jesus that continue to baffle me is his first miracle. Why on earth did he not heal the blind, the deaf or the leper first? Why wine? Well, this question will ...

The hydrogen molecule H 2 is the simplest stable molecule, with two protons and two electrons bound together. Scientists have studied it for more than a century because it’s small enough that theory ...

Abstract: A graph, made up of vertices and edges, is a natural representation for many real-world applications. Graph artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, especially graph neural networks (GNNs), ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended medical research and public health in the U.S. in many ways. One of the ideas that could be influencing his overhaul of federal health agencies dates ...

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...